Read these amazing interviews with The Office director Paul Feig. He talks about Michael Scott and Steve Carell’s last episode.
hitfix.com:
HitFix: This is your first “Office” episode since the wedding pair last season, right?
Paul Feig: Yeah, I went away and did “Bridesmaids,” so I’ve been working on that for the whole time. Actually, it was looking for a while like I wasn’t going to be able to do Steve’s final “Office” episode, because we were heading into our sound mix, but we were able to move stuff around. It would have killed me to not be able to do Steve’s last one, so we were able to make it work out. I’m thrilled that I got to do it.
HitFix: How have you come to be the guy who gets approached to do this sort of Very Special Episode?
PF: I don’t know. They just very nicely offer these to me. I got to do the wedding. I got to do the proposal. I ended up getting to do the dinner party, which was a big episode. I think I’ve just done so many. I think I’ve done 20 now, because every hour I’ve done, they basically break into two half-hours and count those as two. I’ve definitely done a lot of them and I really get along great with the cast, like all of the directors, but I feel like I really understand the style of the show and I’m able to add little bits of stuff.

